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The Happy Prince and Other Stories

By Oscar Wilde
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Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child. Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of The Happy Prince and Other Stories. A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar... Read More
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Puffin Classics - the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition of The Happy Prince and Other Stories.

A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the happy prince who was not so happy after all, the selfish giant who learned to love little children, and the star child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetry and magic and will be enjoyed by children of every age.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241736401

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin Classics

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Lars Bo
  • Introduction by Markus Zusak

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 161g

Pages: 224

Collections

Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Oscar Wilde Penguin Books

About the Author

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

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